
2025 No. 244
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE
The National Health Service (Common Staffing Method) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2025
Made 2nd September 2025
Laid before the Scottish Parliament 4th September 2025
Coming into force 30th October 2025
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 12IJ(3) and 105(7) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 and all other powers enabling them to do so.
Citation and commencement
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These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Common Staffing Method) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2025 and come into force on 30 October 2025.
Amendment of the National Health Service (Common Staffing Method) (Scotland) Regulations 2024
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(1) The National Health Service (Common Staffing Method) (Scotland) Regulations 2024 are amended in accordance with this regulation.
(2) In Regulation 4 (Professional judgement tool), for “Version 3”, substitute “Version 4”.
(3) In the second column of the table in the schedule (Staffing level tools), for “Mental Health and Learning Disability Staffing Level Tool Version 3”, substitute “Mental Health and Learning Disability Inpatient Nurse Staffing Level Tool Version 1”.
NEIL GRAY
A member of the Scottish Government
St Andrew's House
Edinburgh
2nd September 2025